Except as otherwise specifically provided or indicated by the context of this Charter:
(1) The word "board'' includes the word "commission";
(2) The word "city" means the City of Charlotte;
(3) The word "Council" means the City Council of the City of Charlotte;
(4) The word "law" denotes applicable Federal law, the constitution and statutes of Michigan, the applicable common law, and this Charter;
(5) The word "officer" includes the Mayor, the members of the Council, the Municipal Judge or Judges, and, as hereinafter provided, the administrative officers, and deputy administrative officers;
(6) The word "person" extends and may be applied to bodies politic and corporate and to partnership and associations as well as to individuals;
(7) The words "printed" or "printing" include typewriting, printing, engraving, stencil duplicating, lithographing, photostating, or any similar method of reproducing written language which is understandable by average literate persons conversant with the English language;
(8) The words "publish" or "published" include publication in the manner provided by law, or, where there is no applicable law, in one or more newspapers of the city qualified by law for the publication of legal notices, or if such newspaper publication is not available, by posting in at least three places in each election precinct;
(9) Except in reference to signatures, the words "written" and "in writing" include hand written script, printing, typewriting, teletype and telegraphic communications, and other forms of written language which is readable by average literate persons conversant with the English language;
(10) All words indicating the present tense are not limited to the time of the adoption of this Charter, but extend to and include the time of the happening of any event or requirement to which a Charter provision is applied;
(11) The singular includes the plural, the plural includes the singular, and the masculine gender extends to and includes the feminine gender and the neuter.
Editor's note:
The Municipal Court was abolished by M.C.L.A.§ 600.9921